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Place the on-again off-again on-again “Beetlejuice” sequel back in the ‘maybe’ box.
The project has been in development for a few years now, with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg spearheading the project and on writing duties.
Star Michael Keaton, who along with original director Tim Burton (and co-star Winona Ryder), has long expressed interest in reprising the ‘Ghost with the Most’ in a follow-up to the 1988 hit. But like us, he hasn’t heard a peep on the project in recent times – suggesting it’s either fallen by the wayside or (we can hope) inching forward but quietly.
“Well, the answer [is] I have no idea,” Keaton, on the promo trail for “Spotlight”, tells The Independent when they asked for an update on the project. “That’s the only film I ever mentioned, going back 15, 20 years ago, where I said, ‘That one I’d like to try and do again… I really enjoyed that’ and no one ever did anything about it. So I have no idea what the people are going to do – I don’t think about it much.”
Keaton spoke of the original’s legacy, saying : “The reason it holds up is it’s 100% original thanks to Tim Burton – and hopefully me, and the rest of the cast and the art direction – and [it’s] unique; there’s nothing you can ever compare [Beetlejuice] to. When things are like that, they’ll just last forever.”
While Tim Burton never committed to directing a sequel, he has expressed interest in producing it.
